Ayelet Barkai and Ruth Drasin – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO
The recipients of the 2021 Kravitz Award, Ayelet Barkai, MD and Ruth Drasin, PhD, talk about their work co-directing the Boston chapter of the national organization A Home Within in an interview to Patricia Potter, MD, recorded in the BPSI Library on Oct 1, 2021. The mission of A Home Within is captured in the organization’s motto, “One Child, One Therapist, For as Long as It Takes.” In order to address the trauma and disruption inherent in the foster care system, the organization pairs a foster child (or adult who had been in the foster care...
read moreDo Infants React to Mothers Wearing Masks? – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, BPSI Member and renowned infant researcher Ed Tronick discusses a recent study of infants’ responses to their mothers wearing masks. Tronick created the famous still face experiment that demonstrated the sensitivity of infants to their mother’s contingent responses, primarily communicated by facial expression. In this study, he wanted to know whether mothers’ masking during the pandemic had an effect on their infants’ responses to their mothers when the mothers were masked....
read moreDeborah Choate and Karen Melikian – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO
The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipients of 2015 and 2017, Deborah Choate, MD and Karen Melikian, PhD talk about their community work in a video interview recorded on Aug 20, 2021 in the BPSI Library. Deborah Choate, MD, received the Kravitz Award in 2015. For many years she was a psychiatric/psychoanalytic consultant with the homeless and disadvantaged community, volunteering at organizations that helped women who are homeless or living in poverty to obtain housing, education, and economic independence. She is currently a Clinical Assistant...
read moreThe Squid Game… or The Id Game?
by Simona Grabel, PhD As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport. ~ King Lear As shameful as it was to have watched the entire Squid Game Netflix series, I can safely say that it shows us something deeply true about human nature. This truth applies to the characters (the wanton boys and the flies), and to us, the viewers. Without giving away too much of the plot, (but still: Spoiler Alert!), the story has us follow the main character, Seong Gi-hun, a hapless Korean man, as he voluntarily is drawn into a...
read moreBPSI’s Collaboration with the Freud Museum in Vienna
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Daniela Finzi, Research Director at the Freud Museum in Vienna, contacted our archives to request several of Grete Bibring’s guest lists and photographs from the Edward Bibring photograph collection to showcase these materials at the special exhibit Organized Escape – Survival in Exile. Viennese Psychoanalysis 1938 and Beyond, opening...
read moreYour Highly Sensitive Child – Part II
In this episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Jessica Merle gives thoughts on how to manage reactions of other adults, including teachers, health professionals, extended family, and friends to a highly sensitive child. It’s the 2nd episode in a new series on the “Highly Sensitive Child”, the 1st episode can be accessed here. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent...
read moreNew “Children in War” Materials at BPSI Archives
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Roberta Apfel and Bennett Simon next to the conference poster drawn by a local artist, Sarah Shay. Jerusalem, 1989. BPSI Members, Roberta Apfel, MD and Bennett Simon, MD, have contributed additional materials for the Children in War collection they had kindly donated to the BPSI Archives in 2018. Among recent acquisitions are papers,...
read moreYour Highly Sensitive Child, Part I – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, an accomplished professional woman and the mother of a highly sensitive child describes mothering her wonderful yet challenging child and what she has learned from this experience. It’s the 1st episode in a new series on the “Highly Sensitive Child”. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, an Assistant...
read moreLewis Kirshner’s Landscape Paintings
Four landscape paintings by BPSI Member, Lewis Kirshner, featuring different seasons, are on display in the library this fall. Read Dr. Kirshner’s artist statement below to learn about his sources of inspiration. I took up oils again to learn about portrait painting from a St Johnsbury, Vermont, artist, Ed Kadunc, who was immensely helpful for theory and practice. Later, upon relocating to Amsterdam, I continued lessons from another talented teacher, Charissa van der Kerk. It helps to know what you are doing, especially when it comes to...
read moreMeet the Author – Judy Kantrowitz – VIDEO
Judy L. Kantrowitz, PhD discussed her recently published book The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2020) with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the BPSI Library, and the online audience at our Meet the Author Webinar recorded on Sep 27, 2021. Click here or on the player above to watch. A few copies of autographed books are still on sale in the library. Click here to purchase your copy for $30 (shipping cost is included in the price). Follow this link to watch other webinars...
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